Toronto: Board To Allow Muslim Sermons In Schools, And Protesters Aren’t Happy

This is Canada, not the US but should this be allowed in public schools? Is this a necessary excercise in tolerance? Or is this more creeping Sharia?

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Board To Allow Muslim Sermons In Schools, And Protesters Aren’t Happy
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DAVID KRAYDEN
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1:55 PM 01/11/2017
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Local residents expressed their anger Tuesday night at a decision by a school board in a suburb of Toronto, Canada to reverse its policy on monitoring Muslim sermons.

Last September, concerned about the potential for radical Islamic propaganda infiltrating religious meetings, the Peel Regional School Board had insisted that students read prayers and sermons from an approved text. The board’s decision to allow students to write their own sermons resulted in angry residents storming a public meeting held to discuss the policy change.

Protestors were told to remove their signs because they were deemed anti-Muslim and one woman was taken outside by police after she interrupted the meeting with her objections.

Anger over the move was evident on social media. Protestor John Goddard wrote: “Anti-sharia activist Sandra Solomon, born a Palestinian Muslim in Ramallah but [who] left Islam, disrupt[ed] a Peel District School Board meeting on Tuesday night. The board tabled a staff report recommending expansion of Muslim religious privileges in public schools.”


Muslim students in the province of Ontario are entitled to hold weekly prayer meetings, held on Friday. These “Jumm’ah” prayer and sermon sessions have been the focus of intense criticism as the provincial public school system is not supposed to be promoting any religion or hosting any religious instruction. Many schools will not even host Christmas music concerts in deference to non-Christian faiths who may be offended by the observance.

Board members justified the policy reversal by insisting it represented a commitment to inclusiveness:

“The board has always been committed to an inclusive approach in all activities related to religious accommodation for students and staff of all faiths,” director of education Tony Pontes said in a statement released Tuesday night.

Muslim students and their parents argued the ban on personalized sermons negatively impacted the religious freedom of the students while suggesting a stereotyped view of Islam.

“This was about creating a safe space for students, for students to feel equal to the rest of their peers,” high school student Zoya Alam said. “So, this is a positive step for the school board to be creating this safe space and inclusive community.”

Though the sermons are spoken in English — the Qur’an is quoted in Arabic. The prayer meetings will continue to be supervised by a school staff members, according to the new policy.

Peel police came to the meeting after some Muslim students claimed they had received undisclosed “hate speech” messages.

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This cannot happen in the U.S., the First Amendment prohibits it. This is why Separation of Church and State is so important.

 

Creeping shariah? Rofl. Public schools in Ontario had the Lord's prayer before first class every day when I was in school. And I've not heard about any schools forsaking Christmas events because of Muslims or anyone.

Daily caller is a crap site that focuses most of its time on Muslims. I wonder why. Should be labeled a hate site. If someone posted from a site largely critical of jews it would be called anti semetic

 

Who wants to bet that this thread will have 200 "Muslims are trying to force sharia law on everyone" posts.

And the hilarious part is that the prayers are optional, but if the report had been about schools holding guns to kids heads and forcing them to recite Christian prayers, most of the people upset about the schools letting Muslim students do their own prayers and sermons would have no problem with it.

 

Looks like Canada is the western hemisphere's 'Sweden'? It would be hilarious were it not so ominous. 'Those whom the gods wish to destroy . . . '

 

White Conservatives fear anyone that doesn't look like them. Pretty pathetic.

 

While white liberals fear and hate anyone that doesn't think like them.

Consider yourself b1tchslapped.

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